By Jonathan Marshall on February 23, 2017
Only a few months ago, interventionists were demanding a militant response by Washington to what George Soros branded“a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions” — (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on February 8, 2017
A United Nations Panel of Experts sent its report to the UN Security Council this week. The tenor of the report is bleak. Yemen, say the experts, is ‘in danger of fracturing beyond the point of no return’. (more…)
February 14, 2017
A Palestinian academic sounded the alarm over the preplanned tactics of psycho-physical torture perpetrated against Palestinian children in Israeli jails. (more…)
By Philip Giraldi on February 11, 2017
The United States is adding new sanctions on Iran over that country’s alleged misdeeds, and nearly all of those allegations are either out-and-out lies or half-truths. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on February 7, 2017
The Israeli parliament passed legalisation law on Monday night – a piece of legislation every bit as suspect as its title suggests. The law widens the powers of Israeli officials to seize the last fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits. (more…)
By Rick Sterling on February 11, 2017
After the liberation of East Aleppo. Photo: Vanessa Beeley
Amnesty International (AI) has done some good investigations and reports over the years, which has won the group widespread support. (more…)
By Glenn Greenwald on January 30, 2017
January 30 2017,
In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate — (more…)
January 25, 2017
An article by Haaretz accounts the methods that interrogators describe and brings light to torture practices that are known to be routinely and systematically used against Palestinian detainees. (more…)